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The Codex Mendoza: Aztec Tribute, History, and Daily Life
Season 4 Episode 151
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Codex Mendoza, a stunning 16th-century manuscript created by Aztec scribes under Spanish supervision. Com…
1 month ago
The Noche Triste: Cortés's Desperate Escape from Tenochtitlan
Season 3 Episode 150
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into one of the most dramatic and harrowing episodes of the Spanish conquest of Mexico: La Noche Triste, the 'Sa…
1 month ago
The Oñate Entrada: Spanish Conquest of New Mexico 1598
Season 3 Episode 149
In 1598, Juan de Oñate led a massive expedition north from Mexico into what is now New Mexico, aiming to establish a permanent Spanish colony among t…
1 month ago
The Requerimiento: Reading Conquest into Law
Season 3 Episode 148
Long before the first shot was fired, Spanish conquistadors were required by law to read a document aloud to Indigenous peoples: the Requerimiento. T…
1 month ago
The Guadalajara Cartographer: Domingo Lázaro and the First Map of New Spain
Season 3 Episode 147
When Cortés returned to Spain in 1528, he brought with him something more telling than gold: a map. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the forgo…
1 month ago
The Battle of Otumba: Aztec Fury After La Noche Triste
Season 3 Episode 146
In July 1520, Cortés and his surviving army stumbled out of Tenochtitlan after the disastrous Noche Triste — exhausted, wounded, and stripped of thei…
1 month ago
The Encomienda System: Legalized Slavery in Spanish America
Season 3 Episode 145
In the wake of conquest, the Spanish Crown faced a dilemma: how to reward its soldiers and settlers while maintaining control over millions of newly …
1 month, 1 week ago
The Cholula Massacre: Cortés's Calculated Terror
Season 3 Episode 144
In October 1519, just months before the march on Tenochtitlan, Hernán Cortés and his indigenous allies carried out a brutal preemptive attack on the …
1 month, 1 week ago
Cortés's Indian Allies: The Indigenous Conquest of Mexico
Season 3 Episode 143
When Hernán Cortés marched on Tenochtitlan in 1519, his Spanish army was tiny. The real fighting force was tens of thousands of Indigenous allies — T…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Mixtón War: Indigenous Uprising in Nueva Galicia
Season 3 Episode 142
In 1540, just years after the fall of Tenochtitlan, a massive indigenous rebellion erupted in Nueva Galicia—northwest Mexico. The Mixtón War pitted t…
1 month, 1 week ago